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Meeting in brussels where even with a Global Pandemic and everything its brought there is still no consensus over how to deal with the economic fallout leaders now into their 3rd day of meetings to hammer out a budget and a coronavirus bailout package and just so you know the kind of numbers were dealing with this one that is the European Union budget and im president of 2. 00 trillion dollars and then within that youve got this number 857000000000. 00 a not insignificant amount which is set aside to help countries recover from the pandemic but this is where the divisions begin on the one side you have for socalled frugal countries they favor loans rather than. Straight out groans while your 4 biggest and arguably most influential economies want the opposite there are also personal disputes to overcome you heard a short bit of it earlier hungary in Prime Minister viktor orban who blames the dutch leader for the day deadlock he says the hates him and is attacking him harshly maybe because following all of this from london for us jaime anything to report any developments any sign of a breakthrough after 3 days. Known as yet although my experience of covering these kind of events of the year things can take an awfully long time and they can in the final dying hours of a summit theres been a flurry of activity i dont think anyone is holding out much hope right now because this whole question of how to share this vast sum of money has confounded leaders from across the e. U. For 3 days now its opened up all divisions between different blocs really within the e. U. Between those countries that are the largest contributors to the e. U. s coffers and those who are the largest beneficiaries do well from Financial Support from brussels the frugal forward she mentioned to austria the netherlands denmark and sweden are deeply worried about this money being distributed in the form of grants that dont need to be repaid they prefer the idea of them being given to be Different Countries in the form of loans that deeply worried about the bloc becoming an traunch to end debts by boring all of this money from european Financial Institutions so war the likes of germany and france are really at the helm of trying to hammer out a compromise are hoping for is that the frugal 4 will reach an agreement with the other side of the debate and agree on a figure to allow a certain proportion of the money to be distributed in the form of grants but here from the other side of the bait italy and spain their economies commies hard hit by the pandemic theyre hoping for a generous payout theyve accused the frugal 4 of blackmailing the European Union accusing them of having too much power in controlling the Purse Strings of the whole of the continent well in terms of levels of optimism things were running quite low levels 1st thing this morning one anglo merkel arrive she wasnt holding out much hope of a break very. Indian today we are entering the 3rd day of negotiations and it is certainly the decisive one the various issues the size of the fund the way it is managed and also the issues of the rule of law have now been well dealt with whether there will be a solution i still cant say theres a lot of goodwill but there are also a lot of positions so i will join in working for it but there may also be no result today mavis this so looking like a bit of a threat to the whole idea of the court and Court European project i mean i know if you put 27. 00 countries in the one room and try to get them to make consensus that is difficult but still it goes against all the ideas of the union and then you have these personal battles as well we saw the the hungary and later really. Thats right although even before the pandemic there were deepening divisions between the likes of viktor or band of hungry some of the northern and western countries it in europe and thats really been exacerbated by this current debate weve seen mahratta the Prime Minister of the netherlands insisting that a mechanism needs to be included in any financial agreement whereby countries need to prove that they are holding and sticking to the e. U. s rule of law when it comes to standards on human rights and so on and so forth these are exactly the kind of issues that hungry and victor all ban has been personally accused of rolling back on when it comes to protecting freedom of speech the rights of academics to practice these kind of things have really run alarm bells and brussels and what victor all about is basically saying is well look if you include this mechanism within any financial agreement i will veto it and so also or poland another country thats been accused of illiberal changes to the way in which the country runs and they also have the support of slovenia as well so apart from the internal wrangling on how to distribute the money there are personal disputes going on personal disagreements that threaten to potentially undermine any hope of progress on this 3rd day of talks. Back with you later im sure hopefully some news comes out of brussels and barcas in london. Just to build on what he was telling us there about these divisions that exist among the 27 members of the e. U. Here are the specific camps and whos in them. The a use for biggest economies youve got them there france germany italy spain theyre on the side which as weve said favors. Grants straight out grounds which dont need to be paid at the other side the freule for as he was saying the netherlands austria denmark sweden who want that different approach they say they can be grants but they need to be smaller but really we need to be looking at loans bigger loans which are paid back and then the likes of hungary in poland who object to the proposal being tied to democratic rights and theres some personal grievances in among some of them as well well heres some thoughts now from vicky pryce chief economist advisor at the center for Economic Business and research she told us the negotiations really do cover a huge sum of money. Overall were talking about a figure of 1. 85 trillion which will need to be raise some of it quite soon the Recovery Fund itself within that will be raised over the next 4 years in the Capital Markets the rest which is the budget is being paid for by a mix of being 80 payments that individual countries have to then transfer to the center and also import you to use and which are quite importance and theres those also ringback go back to them so so theres a mix of of funding mechanisms that exist so be you state each of course i could she be very significantly in terms of allocating a certain amount of revenue according to their size so that at least is agreed in terms of the general principle the Recovery Fund itself will be raised in the markets and the question is how do you pay back into the ones period the repayments arent starting 2028 but of course your party the budget itself maybe youd be in countries individually will have to pay a little bit more in the next round of negotiations after 2020 and otherwise its very interesting what has been suggested green taxes so that you know one place it will move the emissions that one creates across the u. K. There are also suggestions that big firms ship a certain levy for actually being involved at all in the Single Market to have the benefits from it discussions about the financial tax transactions that actually has been going on for quite some time taxying goods that come in as a boarder adjustment carbon tax is because of course we all shores so much of our production elsewhere so that could come back in a digital tax so that you know otherwise there is a rethink about the rules strategy or what types of taxes there should be across the you mean in towards green eye but also a suggestion that perhaps this all can be paid by just raising taxes across rather than by individual countries just spending no sending more money to the center if you like to repay this. Lets look at other news an International Media has in mali have outlined recommendations to ease tensions between the opposing parties and dedication from the west African Regional bloc issued a statement after days of discussions with the governing party and the opposition they did have an earlier proposed plan but that was rejected by the Opposition Alliance led by the cleric. Who has made it very. Very clear that. More with nicholas following this story from dakar in neighboring senegal. Anymore you can tell us about that eco us News Conference and what sort of compromises they are offering. Well good luck jones that was pretty clear he says that the resignation of the president. Is not on the table echo us wants to follow the constitution and help ease the crisis by recommendation such as you know a new new judges on the Constitutional Court some of them will be appointed by the president others will be appointed by the opposition and members of the protest movement the m 5 will be a core of 5 judges that will decide on the 31. 00 seats that were contested by the opposition that went to the ruling party some of them went to close close family relatives to the president or close allies to the president so that would be discussed by this quorum of 5 judges the also mentioned the need of a National Unity government also formed by nominated by the president and members of the opposition now the reaction to all these recommendation from the. Is this isnt an electoral crisis its an issue of governance and that needs to be addressed 1st for for any negotiations to move forward so i guess this could all come down to a battle of wills then couldnt it nicholas weve seen this in many other countries where the opposition says no the only thing we want is this leader to resign but eco us is taking that off the table. Thats right and you have to remember kemal that among those protesters you have trade unionists teachers that havent been paid for 7 months you have members of the opposition that are leading this protest Movement Without their leader smile as you say that was abducted during the parliamentary elections believed to be held by al qaeda affiliate. While mostly mean theres also Mahmoud Dicko the influential cleric whos upset with the lack of security in the north in the center of the country weve seen an uptick of violence notably after a un investigation pointing the finger at the mali and Security Forces being behind extrajudicial killings of civilians that there are meant to protect so theres really a broad range of issues among the opposition but interesting to know that the ecowas really want to resolve this issue because there are elections in neighboring countries in abidjan in wanted to go and theyre closely monitoring the situation in burma because at the heart of this problem is an issue of trust between the people and those that are governing them. Right itself may cause heart in dakar. And have a closer look at this crisis in mali because it goes back quite a few years if we go back to 2012 when armed groups took control of the north and declared islamic law before they were defeated by french and african. Yes but the violence has only continued mali and Security Forces have been leading the offensive but theyve also been accused of rampant abuse the situation has worsened the plight of civilians most of whom live in poverty opposition leaders say the government just hasnt done enough to improve the economy and the last straw came in april when the Constitutional Court overturned the provisional results of a long delayed and disputed parliamentary election which happened in march with us on skype now from aberdeen to talk about this is. Just politics at the university of aberdeen and is the author of inherent and contemporary challenges to African Security so weve seen a few of those just as i explained there since 2012 how much of what were seeing now goes back to that original violence the poverty those issues rather than that one electoral moment back in april. Yeah im very interested that youve pointed to the historical. Events behind this particular issue defining you could do really really thought back a few 100 years actually for the case of mali to understand that the me you shoes in mali are issues to do with state from g. G. This deed. Is asked in very weak. In only to the military are to keep this teacher out of to 1091 when they turn into democracy but by treaty 13 as you mentioned it was clear that the system was not working but as i said earlier you need to go back the kind of team you had in the region the region was more or a state based or will islamic values going back to the old man some who say so that kind of speak now is more the western coast. Which has never really been properly planted in march right so does president sorry to interrupt or does president abraham does he acknowledge any of this does he say yes there are historical issues here i see i i hear the grievances you have and i will work on it or is he simply saying no on the later and im staying in power. I think its very challenging to draw it down to a Single Person i think the president actually understand the historical issues question is what then do you do its barry complicated one you know you have the issues with islamic groups you have tribes you have issues of poverty you have a government we simply doesnt have the means to be able to control the entire country and you also have a time or speed which there are people are now saying we dont want is from what you can see the protests there were more islam each party which its not quite what were here to stands for right so one as an interesting hes just there because this is the current that was that is accepted by the International Community and hes more or less there to enforce it whether the people want it or not want to get her. Canny co us fix this do you think do you think theyre the right group are they the only group while it collapsed perhaps has more credibility because in the past has been france and the military back comes in to strengthen the state which doesnt have a very good reputation in their region so ecowas being called being african has some pretty legion but the problem is due to have that power because what is needed in the sahara in general in the market in particular is a strong state which has the capacity to comptroller advance and then its very cheap but would it be able to support. To do that doubted so i think even in cape town gold the problems will continue not of the concert great to talk to you thanks for joining us today and. And hundreds of protesters are demanding the dissolution of parliament in democratic republic of congo the. Demonstrations in 10 shots that were organized by the Catholic Church which wants them to become regular sunday protests the church in parliament is blocking meaningful reform on web following these developments from nairobi for. The calling for the dissolution of parliament and for electoral reforms and they say that the parliament isnt legitimate because it was elected in an election one and a half years ago that they say was rigged and under an Electoral Commission which they say was parted and biased in favor of former president Joseph Kabila and Joseph Kabila stepped down at the time of that election he couldnt run again because hes already reached his constitutional limits of terms but according to leaked documents the opposition were rigged out of their victory and felix to security the current president was announced the winner now to security in kabila entered a Fragile Coalition after that which is widely seen to be an arrangement that was meant to keep Joseph Kabila in power from behind the scenes now that coalition has been on the quite some tension in recent months and these calls come at a time which is a kid hes trying to assert his authority and Joseph Kabila seems to be trying to push back. 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